The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Tokyo earlier this month saw strong messages delivered on ending poverty and food scarcity, but the gathering failed to map out a solution to these issues, the president of the International Cooperative Alliance said.
Dame Pauline Green, the first female president of the Geneva-based global body for cooperatives, was in Tokyo this month to attend events related to the meetings.
Newly elected World Bank President Jim Yong Kim made some "crucially important remarks" over his organization's will to end poverty, Green said in an interview with The Japan Times on Friday, adding that his words were "heartening."